Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subspecies Trichodes peninsularis horni

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Subfamily Clerinae
Genus Trichodes
Species peninsularis (Trichodes peninsularis)
Subspecies horni (Trichodes peninsularis horni)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trichodes horni Wolcott & Chapin 1918, Trichodes illustris Horn 1876
Explanation of Names
Trichodes peninsularis horni Wolcott & Chapin 1918
Range
AZ, c. & s. TX, Baja(1)(2)
Life Cycle
larval hosts: Ashmeadiella meliloti, A. occipitalis (Megachilidae)(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae
Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.
2.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
3.Revision of North American Trichodes (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Cleridae).
Foster, D.E. 1976. Texas Tech University Special Publications No. 11. 86 p.